The amino acid glutamine is a constituent of proteins and a nitrogen donor for many biosynthetic reactions, including the biosynthesis of amino acids, purines, pyrimidines, glucosamime and carbamoyl phosphate. The biosynthesis of glutamine is catalyzed by glutamine synthetase, a key enzyme of nitrogen metabolism found in all domains of life. Phylogenetic analysis of glutamine synthetase genes has suggested that they are among the oldest functioning genes in the history of evolution [Kumada93]. In microorganisms and plants, glutamine synthetase (also known as GS) has a role in ammonia assimilation in combination with glutamate synthase (glutamine: α-oxoglutarate aminotransferase, or GOGAT) as indicated by the pathway links and pathways ammonia assimilation cycle III and superpathway of ammonia assimilation (plants)). This is known as the GS/GOGAT pathway [Gottschalk86].